Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-06

NUMBER 13.
The Dsmocrat. a leading one in this
state, and one of the most active mem.
bers of the Charleston convention, ad.
mitted this, but parried by saying that
not all Democrats were proslavery men.
I had this in mind when I wrote the
sentence the REGISTER criticises. Dur
ing the war had a long conversation
with Gen. Pemberton. in which he
said the demise of the Wig party had
forced all proslavery men over on the
Democratic side, and he called these
men traitors, and not Democrats, who
bad joined the Republicans in their
opposition to slavery. Here cames in
what makes the Generals views most
interesting to-day. He claimed that
Democrats were the champions of pop
ular or representative government, and
he did not believe such government
could be mainta ined under system of
free labor. Just like the Rev. DIR.
Thornwell, of South Carolina, he de-
Tended slavery on the ground of its be-
ing necessary organization of labor
and one which we of the north would
some day be glad to resort to in order
to avoid something worse. Like Thorn.
well, too, he predicted a state of things,
under regime OF free sbor, that We
seem to be so near realizing now.
With earnest tones and energetic ges-
lures, he propesied that "in bis native
city. the city of brotherly love, Phiia-
delphia, men would be hung to every
lamp post" give this as a quotation
for it is In his very words, as near as
can remember. We cannot expect that
the mass of men shall be wiser than
their time. Thornwell and Pemberton
were logically right according to their
light. But it was the old arlstocratic
idea cropping up under the name of
Democracy: the idea that there must
necessarily be ruling class. and hence
an organization of labor ttar gives a
class leisure for intellectual. improve
ment, for it is part of this idea that
manual toll is embruiting. Even in
this notion, absurd as it seems at first,
when plainly stated there is some truth;
enough truth to have mislead the world
for ages. simply because men have not
noted clearly enough the difference, in
eff ct, between working to live and liv-
ing to work. Tie first elevates and
ennobles. the second demora'izes and
degrades. Heretofore the masses have
lived only to work, hence social pro.
gress has been slow and discouraging.
Had the Doctor and the General fore
seen that what we now call the land
question was complete solution Of the
problem OF industrial slavery, a ala very
70 wfssr, 90 ssrer. md so flamning that
chattel slavery was refuge from it in
they would both have
been found on the side of freedom.
Whether am right or not In saying
that all proslavery men. at that juno
ture, were Democrats. I know I am
right in saying that If we would always
look at every mans
we should never judge
40 harshly of individuals, as we some
times do.
The REGISTER quotes from tie
Advocute something the ed
itor has to say about Henry Georges
theories. The principal question that
confronts the editor of the ADVOCATE ia,
like that which stares every Industrial
slave in the face, the question of bread
and butter. IF he should be over zeal
ous in the cause of humanity, if he
should search fearlessly for truth with
out regarding the feelings or prejudices
Of his readers, he might lose many of
his steadiest subscribers, and an empty
ia more than match for an
easy conscience. "George's feet are on
the solid rock Of TRUTH" said leading
clergyman here to me, the other day.
but we hear him 80 commonly called
q socialist and a communist, that we
are cautious in espousiDg his PLAN"
The editor of the ADVOCATE has read
a speech of Mr.. Georges in which he
finds "a goodly amount of bombast"
and still more rabble-bait. If the edi-
tor will look over columns of any relig-
ious journal, not excepting.his own, he
will find that bombast and dd captain
dun vuigus is the principal stock in
our trade. We are ever blowing about
our humanity, our civilization and the
high hopes and noble impulses our true
and glorious religion incites In US; yet
we have never been at loss for an ex-
cuse for having our man butchers tread
on the heels of our missionaries, and
instead of taking the trouble to cook q
man before eating him, like good cam
nibals, we take him raw-dished up on
lease or a mortgage, whole families
at once, so that We get the young and
tender along with the old and tough.
We worry our fellow-men with labor
and care night and. day kill by
inches-then gather sanctimoniously
round the grave and ask heaven to
bless the poor DEVILS soul, now we can
no longer feed or fatten on his toll.
Bouncing bombast! ludicrous rabble-
bait! tut n style of Christianity that